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Re: tail -f problem


This is not a simple issue of "the linux tail works, and the cygwin tail
doesn't".  You're exporting an smb share, which most likely (or could
possibly) affect buffering/flushing.  At any rate, if the linux tail is
working for you, use it.

cheers,
-Matt


> I've read the archives (now that I found it) about other people posting
> about this.  However, this does not change the fact that linux's version
of
> tail works plenty fine with viewing IIS logfiles vs. Cygwin's version of
> tail.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Smith [mailto:matts@bluesguitar.org]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:39 AM
> To: Cygwin
> Cc: Scott Alexander
> Subject: Re: tail -f problem
>
>
> This is not the fault of tail, rather IIS.  Search the archives if you're
> interested why.
>
> cheers,
> -Matt Smith
>
>
>
> > With cygwin's tail, the output is not quite the same as the linux
version
> of
> > tail.  With Cygwin's version, I will get output with tail -f, but the
> > updates aren't "realtime" as the linux version -- the updates are barely
> > shown at all, if ever.  Here are the different methods I used to try and
> > parse the IIS log file:
> > Thanks,
> > -Scott


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